Sourav Ganguly made a surprise announcement of his retirement from Test cricket after the end of four-match series against Australia beginning Thursday, bringing to an end a 16-year career that had of late shown a slump. “Before I leave, I have to make an announcement. This is going to be my last series. I have [...]
RMIT University’s Professor Suresh Bhargava, Head of the School of Applied Sciences, has received the Royal Australian Chemical Institute’s prestigious RK Murphy Medal Considered the most coveted award in the field of industrial chemistry, the medal was presented in Newcastle last week as part of Chemeca 2008, an annual national conference for academics and business [...]
Ricky Ponting hit a crucial fifty and Michael Clarke made an assured 36, but the Australians will leave Hyderabad with more questions than answers. Their bowlers once again were second-best; Board President’s XI set the Australians an impossible target of 434 by declaring 47 minutes after lunch. Yuvraj Singh played a vital role in building [...]
NRI steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has lost 16.6 billion pounds in the global credit crunch owing to plummeting stock markets in the last four months, media reports said in London on Sunday. The 58-year-old Mittal heads a list of ten super-rich losers who together have seen their share portfolios shrink by about 23 billion pounds from their [...]
A US strike on a Pakistani village near the Afghan border has killed at least nine people including suspected foreign militants, Pakistani sources say. Initial reports said at least 20 people had died when an unmanned aircraft (drone) fired on the village in North Waziristan region. But officials later put the numbers between nine and [...]
WASHINGTON: US President George W Bush will sign the legislation on the Indo-US nuclear deal, approved by the Congress, into a law on Wednesday October 8 2008, the White house said. Bush will sign the Bill H R 7081, named after Howard Berman, a Democrat who was strongly opposed to the deal on non-proliferation grounds [...]
Three gram reduction in a person’s dietary intake of salt would result in over a 20 per cent drop in deaths from stroke and over a 15 per cent fall in death from heart disease, according to a senior cardiologist in Coimbatore. “Heart disease and stroke are the world’s number one killer, causing 17.5 million [...]
New Delhi: The government on Friday approved the setting up of the ‘India Development Foundation of Overseas Indians’ to direct funds from abroad for philanthropic purposes. A proposal for setting up the foundation, a non-profit trust, was forwarded by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) after receiving recommendations from several noted overseas Indians. “The [...]
New Delhi: The Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) hopes to develop an indigenous Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) submarine in four to five years, chief controller, Research and Development, A Sivathanu Pillai has said. Research and development work was going on at the DRDO Naval Material Research Laboratory (NMRL) in Mumbai to develop hydrogen-based fuel cells [...]
Tatas pulled out of West Bengal for its Rs one-lakh car Nano project, blaming it on continuing agitation by the opposition parties, spearheaded by Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee. Addressing the media after meeting with Chief Minister Budhadeb Bhattacharjee, Ratan Tata, however, said that Nano will come out as per the committed time.”Nano will come [...]
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Budget Preview: Productivity: Surplus to requirements?
>By Megan Motto, CEO Consult Australia: The pressure on the Federal Budget to deliver a surplus whilst preserving existing services and supporting future productivity is considerable. Slashing bureaucrats’ consulting budgets is often seen as an easy-win to help achieve this balance. In recent weeks, following the election of Campbell Newman, and with a fiscally conservative [...]
Abbot vision for secure borders, cohesive society
As well as an occasion to reflect on the valour and self-sacrifice of Australia’s military personnel, Anzac Day, which we commemorated this past week, should also be a reminder of the role that our country has played in the wider world. Australia is an influential middle power and, whether we quite appreciate it or not, [...]
Bob Carr views a world with ‘overlapped’ cultures
Last month, US soldiers burned copies of the Koran at Bagram air base in Afghanistan. Days later, young people destroyed 238 war graves in Benghazi, Libya.Intentional insult or error of judgement, such acts can look like cultures at war as did the Taliban when it dynamited the Buddhas of Bamiyan, carved in stone 15 centuries [...]
Several Aus & Asian Universities in top 50 world ranking, but none from India
An Opinion by Dr. Yadu Singh: The latest ranking from The Times Higher Education World University ranking in 2012 places Harvard University at number 1, MIT at number 2, Cambridge at number 3 and Stanford at 4. Melbourne University, Australian National University [ANU] and University of Sydney are in the top 50. Many more are [...]
Multiculturalism in Australia: a policy, we can’t do without!
An Opinion By Dr. Yadu Singh: Australia is a great place where one can meet people from all backgrounds, cultures and religions. They can enjoy food from diverse backgrounds-Indian, Chinese, Italian, Sri Lankan, Thai and many more, including, of course, Australian. People can and do enjoy festivals from diverse backgrounds. I myself have participated in [...]